Feminist Quotes

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.

Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.